I won't call anything a fighting simulator until you can control arm and hand positioning in attempts to eye-gouge and fishhook. Or until you can kick/hit/grab your opponent's nuts. Or their hair. Or strangle them.
I want a fighting DIRTY simulator. Because THAT'S realism.
"I've got burned disks here that are seven years old that are just fine. Perhaps if you burn at high speeds there may be issues (but I doubt it) but this is just spurious nonsense. IBM are obviously trying to sell something."
Just like happened with floppy disks in the mid 90s, CDs have gone to crap in the last few years. I doubt you could take a random disc (even avoiding the absolute low end) and be so sure it would be good in 7 years.
Anything important I want to save to CD, I make 2 or more copies of.
So Giuliani *did* make a difference, in making what Bin Laden attempted to do less meaningful. Distructive, yes. Painful, yes. Did it make the US back down and do what he wanted? No.
"Giuliani was just a mayor" is the *whole point* of why he got Person of the Year. He wasn't supposed to be capable of displaying this kind of leadership, yet he did. He is "just a mayor" that did more to comfort Americans all over the US,
There are only two possible CORRECT answers for who should have been 2001 Man of the Year. Bush and Bin Laden. Neither for good. (And Bush only really with a minimum of 1 1/2 years of hindsight.)
Ooooohhh...he comforted the american people...but not enough to prevent the wholesale pissing upon the constitution, not enough to prevent the war machine from going into motion.
So what if his influence rose above his position? I'm sure hundreds or thousands of less visible people could have the same said of them. He affected less change, he affected fewer people, he accomplished less than Bin Laden.
If time wants to stop pussying out over this, maybe they should just start doing two men of the year, good *AND* evil. Or just indicate on the cover which they're choosing the guy for.
Time's "Man of the Year" is more meaningless these days than a Nobel Peace Prize these days. (And seriously, compared to how they go about handing out the other prizes, they pass those things around like party favors.)
Useable energy...as in useable in current systems, in a practical sense, not as in "well some bacterium can power it's flagella with it." Turkey waste, as is, is not.
I call bullshit on at least one claim. The primary greenhouse gas is CO2 and biodiesel is still carbon based so it still produces CO2. If that claim is wrong, what about the others?
Alright, genius, what do you think is going to happen to the carbon in the waste products used here if it isn't used to make fuel?
A damn lot (all?) of it is going to end up back in the environment anyway as it decomposes. That's why this is "carbon neutral."
It may be true that biodiesel reduces our consumption of fossil fuels, but that depends on how much fossil fuel is consumed to produce biodiesel.
If more usable energy comes out of that process than went in, the increase in CO2 in the environment has been reduced.
I suppose the small screen, and it's positioning might make it less fragile, but it's still going to get scratched to hell. I don't have to worry about replacing face plates...EVER...with my SP.
The advantage of a clam shell design is that you can put weight on it without breaking the screen. You can sit on an SP and not break it. (I'm not going to try standing on it though) After leaning on my backpack once with my electronic dictionary in it...I wanted to cry.
But well, if it's rigid enough and the screen is small enough, it might be safe from breakage. Won't stop scratches.
I bought it because the screen was significantly better than the original Gameboy advance (The fact that the GBA screen was WORSE than my Gameboy Color was what prevented me from buying one at first).
I bought it because it was smaller, it fit in a shirt pocket, or well, any pocket. A GBA wouldn't have (in fact I think the GBA SP was the first portable system that would).
I bought it because of the clamshell design, which protects the screen when not in use.
The Gameboy Micro does two out of three better than the SP. That ain't too shabby.
"This is where I have to firmly disagree with you. While there should be a national minimum educational requirement, families and communities ought to be allowed a great deal of leeway in regards to what they are allowed to teach. Allowing them to do so gives the ability for more visionary communities to better prepare for the future, setting an example to other schools. The idea that a monolithic education system can make all the "right choices" regarding what needs to be taught is presumptuous."
I think what he means that to counteract is the opposite...the backwards bible-thumping luddite communities holding back their young people by denying them a modern education.
Some benefit through no fault of their own, while others suffer.
"Quite frankly, a mediocre player is giong to lose all their money in the long run anyway, if a bot can beat them. Whether it goes to a player or a bot is really irrelevant"
No, it is not irrelevant. If they're having a good time while they're losing money, they might still keep coming back. Almost no one actually enjoys playing against bots in any real-time online game of any form. The more bots there are, the fewer people will want to play, the less money online gaming (poker, MMORPG, FPS, whatever) companies can make.
Bots may not strictly speaking be cheating, but they have the same effect: making the game less enjoyable to the other players.
"But I'll agree with the statement Size=safety. I think I could withstand most basic impacts with my vic."
The most survivable accident is the one you don't get into.
It's a whole lot easier to avoid an accident in a small car.
Also, the size of your car doesn't make much difference if you say, hit a tree or a light post. That's a situation where you'd be better off in a Mini than a truck. (You also would be less likely to roll.)
Can't say much bad about your car, in particular, though. Might not be as nimble as a Miata, but it's low to the ground, isn't going to override other people, isn't going to roll...it's just BIG.
I dunno, for the closest comparable engines, that looks mighty similar.
For an SUV with similar fuel economy to a minivan, you're not going to get 7 seats. You're also probably not going to get as much usable cargo room (you might not even in the 7 passenger SUV), you're probably going to pay more, and you probably won't get crashworthiness as good.
Minivans get a free pass because they do everything that most SUV buyers are buying their SUVs for, or CLAIMING they're buying them for, they do some of them BETTER, they often do it CHEAPER, and with better fuel economy.
If they're afraid of guys like this, why don't they just charge a small fee for the boxes, which is applied to the price of shipping when you use them for the intended purpose?
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I won't call anything a fighting simulator until you can control arm and hand positioning in attempts to eye-gouge and fishhook. Or until you can kick/hit/grab your opponent's nuts. Or their hair. Or strangle them.
I want a fighting DIRTY simulator. Because THAT'S realism.
"I've got burned disks here that are seven years old that are just fine. Perhaps if you burn at high speeds there may be issues (but I doubt it) but this is just spurious nonsense. IBM are obviously trying to sell something."
Just like happened with floppy disks in the mid 90s, CDs have gone to crap in the last few years. I doubt you could take a random disc (even avoiding the absolute low end) and be so sure it would be good in 7 years.
Anything important I want to save to CD, I make 2 or more copies of.
I was thinking more "Ship them to Madagascar? You mean round them up into camps and gas them?"
So Giuliani *did* make a difference, in making what Bin Laden attempted to do less meaningful. Distructive, yes. Painful, yes. Did it make the US back down and do what he wanted? No.
"Giuliani was just a mayor" is the *whole point* of why he got Person of the Year. He wasn't supposed to be capable of displaying this kind of leadership, yet he did. He is "just a mayor" that did more to comfort Americans all over the US,
There are only two possible CORRECT answers for who should have been 2001 Man of the Year. Bush and Bin Laden. Neither for good. (And Bush only really with a minimum of 1 1/2 years of hindsight.)
Ooooohhh...he comforted the american people...but not enough to prevent the wholesale pissing upon the constitution, not enough to prevent the war machine from going into motion.
So what if his influence rose above his position? I'm sure hundreds or thousands of less visible people could have the same said of them. He affected less change, he affected fewer people, he accomplished less than Bin Laden.
If time wants to stop pussying out over this, maybe they should just start doing two men of the year, good *AND* evil. Or just indicate on the cover which they're choosing the guy for.
Time's "Man of the Year" is more meaningless these days than a Nobel Peace Prize these days. (And seriously, compared to how they go about handing out the other prizes, they pass those things around like party favors.)
The quest for the most effective labour for the lowest price will never end.
Not till it gets to, say, Somalia.
Keep proving me right. I get off on it.
Farming 1,000,000 turkeys in a factory farm is not a neutral act.
The turkeys are already being raised.
No one is seriously suggesting raising more turkeys for fuel.
GOD DAMN. The ability to miss the point on display here today is incredible. I salute you, oh intellectual athletes.
Useable energy...as in useable in current systems, in a practical sense, not as in "well some bacterium can power it's flagella with it." Turkey waste, as is, is not.
I don't see thermodynamics being violated here.
I call bullshit on at least one claim. The primary greenhouse gas is CO2 and biodiesel is still carbon based so it still produces CO2. If that claim is wrong, what about the others?
Alright, genius, what do you think is going to happen to the carbon in the waste products used here if it isn't used to make fuel?
A damn lot (all?) of it is going to end up back in the environment anyway as it decomposes. That's why this is "carbon neutral."
It may be true that biodiesel reduces our consumption of fossil fuels, but that depends on how much fossil fuel is consumed to produce biodiesel.
If more usable energy comes out of that process than went in, the increase in CO2 in the environment has been reduced.
" Calling them "whippersnappers" just doesn't do it anymore."
Wear a bloody apron, wave a cleaver instead of a cane. Growl "Ah, fresh meat!"
Also, I am 100 percent positive something like this device would affect me in my old age (curse my high-frequency hearing)
Imagine a beowulf cluster of MY FISTS IN YOUR FACE. Imagine a beowulf cluster of SHUT THE FUCK UP.
I realize they can revert it back, but you have got to admit this is still a goddamn nuisance, and that Slashdot is apparantly full of assholes.
Given the quality of some of the readership here, maybe Slashdot shouldn't link to Wikis.
Assholes. You know who you are.
I suppose the small screen, and it's positioning might make it less fragile, but it's still going to get scratched to hell. I don't have to worry about replacing face plates...EVER...with my SP.
The advantage of a clam shell design is that you can put weight on it without breaking the screen. You can sit on an SP and not break it. (I'm not going to try standing on it though) After leaning on my backpack once with my electronic dictionary in it...I wanted to cry.
But well, if it's rigid enough and the screen is small enough, it might be safe from breakage. Won't stop scratches.
I bought it because the screen was significantly better than the original Gameboy advance (The fact that the GBA screen was WORSE than my Gameboy Color was what prevented me from buying one at first).
I bought it because it was smaller, it fit in a shirt pocket, or well, any pocket. A GBA wouldn't have (in fact I think the GBA SP was the first portable system that would).
I bought it because of the clamshell design, which protects the screen when not in use.
The Gameboy Micro does two out of three better than the SP. That ain't too shabby.
"This is where I have to firmly disagree with you. While there should be a national minimum educational requirement, families and communities ought to be allowed a great deal of leeway in regards to what they are allowed to teach. Allowing them to do so gives the ability for more visionary communities to better prepare for the future, setting an example to other schools. The idea that a monolithic education system can make all the "right choices" regarding what needs to be taught is presumptuous."
I think what he means that to counteract is the opposite...the backwards bible-thumping luddite communities holding back their young people by denying them a modern education.
Some benefit through no fault of their own, while others suffer.
Stuff like this might only be viable with oil prices as high as they are now.
Don't look forward to lower gas prices again, those days are probably over.
"Quite frankly, a mediocre player is giong to lose all their money in the long run anyway, if a bot can beat them. Whether it goes to a player or a bot is really irrelevant"
No, it is not irrelevant. If they're having a good time while they're losing money, they might still keep coming back. Almost no one actually enjoys playing against bots in any real-time online game of any form. The more bots there are, the fewer people will want to play, the less money online gaming (poker, MMORPG, FPS, whatever) companies can make.
Bots may not strictly speaking be cheating, but they have the same effect: making the game less enjoyable to the other players.
Did this guy take prison populations and other similarly intelligent groups into consideration? I'll bet it balances out.
It also won't help when you're an idiot. It only works if you pay attention and have good reaction times.
Oh yeah, and small size also means you have more room to miss what you're going to hit.
I'd be curious to see accident rates per mile for drivers of the same age group either nationwide or in the same geographical area, by car model.
I always get more highway, less city. Even with the windows down.
Lead foot hurts in the city, not so much on the highway. Gotta keep it under 75 with most cars, though.
I see a lot of underinflated tires, though. I leave notes on people's cars if they have obvious ones.
"But I'll agree with the statement Size=safety. I think I could withstand most basic impacts with my vic."
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The most survivable accident is the one you don't get into.
It's a whole lot easier to avoid an accident in a small car.
Also, the size of your car doesn't make much difference if you say, hit a tree or a light post. That's a situation where you'd be better off in a Mini than a truck. (You also would be less likely to roll.)
http://www.bridger.us/2002/12/16/CrashTestingMINI
Can't say much bad about your car, in particular, though. Might not be as nimble as a Miata, but it's low to the ground, isn't going to override other people, isn't going to roll...it's just BIG.
I hate that minivans get a free pass. Most of the time their MPGs are as bad as SUVs
2005 Dodge Caravan SWB SXT
3.3L V6 180HP 19/26 mpg
2005 Dodge Durango SLT 4X2
3.7L V6 210HP 16/21 mpg
For example.
I dunno, for the closest comparable engines, that looks mighty similar.
For an SUV with similar fuel economy to a minivan, you're not going to get 7 seats. You're also probably not going to get as much usable cargo room (you might not even in the 7 passenger SUV), you're probably going to pay more, and you probably won't get crashworthiness as good.
Minivans get a free pass because they do everything that most SUV buyers are buying their SUVs for, or CLAIMING they're buying them for, they do some of them BETTER, they often do it CHEAPER, and with better fuel economy.
If they're afraid of guys like this, why don't they just charge a small fee for the boxes, which is applied to the price of shipping when you use them for the intended purpose?
Trade is only free for capital. And even then only if you've got a lot of it. Or that seems to be what those with a lot of it want.
When labor is as free to move as capital, I'll be fully converted. (when land is I'll be fucking amazed.)
A group of lab-coated engineers having a barbecue using a 48 million dollar grill.